Opinion: A Smear on the Academy

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... I ... I ... I ... thus studies Association decided to vote on Monday ... to boycott Israel ... this is raising a lot of eyebrows in the Academy and for good reason ... little diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley ... joins me now Jason ... at the ... least we left for a long time to be a surprise but as ... I ... know it can't be surprised anymore I mean that there might've been a time long ago ... when such things are shocking but ... you know this comes from a worldview that says the problem ... with Israel are the problem in Italy ... can say is history ... the sole democracy the U S ally ... not ... these nations surrounding it cannot tolerate ... a Jewish day whats interesting Mary that ... um ... the president of the health of the Authority ... Mahmoud Abbas ... opposes the boycott issue which is to stay ... in academia academics in America or to the last ... of the Palestinian Authority married ... this is where we send our children to be educated it's it's afraid we're not yet in this afraid infighting on alternately those assists vote matters it's just an obscure group of professors who are ... trying to make their their statement of what I don't think it has much significance I'm ... I'm in real world it is a symbol of where ... the ... academic year of academic ... life is today and it's it's pretty scary to me ... Israel's this beacon of freedom ... replacing the world ... of where there's a lot of American hatred to a strong ally of the U S and again you have these academics ... saying that you know ... bought for Israel ... you know the will therefore be Canada or or or or Ireland it's it's a ridiculously cheap you know we're getting a lot of attention for the editorial this morning but also for an op ed that of Professor Jonathan market ... put in the paper and she noted ... that ... so essentially this council had to read the game to get the votes true she may be heartened by that well ... perhaps but it is an irony to point out here which is that ... Visa professes to care about ... academic freedom ... I mean how's academic freedom going in Saudi Arabia ... in a deal to open a campus and tell a beat or ... try to men in Damascus was yelping the campus in Singapore and agreed to limit Atrium estimates there are so intelligent and even the lip service to give to academic freedom is really just that I mean is that it's nothing more ... the key with think of all people ... who believe in academic freedom and political freedom ... it would be for fasteners on our campuses in the last but here they are boycotting are calling for a boycott of the only ... place in the region ... where academic and political freedoms this happened Congress is huge and wonderful diary editor Fox News contributor Jason Riley ... thank so much for joining us